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About SONAR
SONAR is the flagship product of the Cakewalk line of integrated MIDI and digital
audio sequencers for the Windows platform. SONAR has a comprehensive feature
set that makes it the single most productive tool for sound and music authoring.
Here are some of the ways you can use SONAR.
Music Composition and Exploration
SONAR is a powerful music-composition application, providing tools to record your
own musical performances; enhance or improve the quality of those performances;
and edit, arrange, and experiment with the music. With a few simple clicks of the
mouse, you can arrange, orchestrate, and audition your composition. Fully
integrated sequencing allows you to combine the convenience and flexibility of
MIDI composition with the high-quality sound and subtlety of digital audio sound
recording and reproduction. Change the feel of a piece by locking it to a musical
groove, or add delicate delays, anticipations, or echoes that add richness to the
music.
SONAR displays and lets you edit your music using standard musical notation and
guitar tablature, so you can adjust individual notes, add performance markings,
and print individual parts or full scores. You can graphically draw tempo and
volume changes, or add lyrics to display on-screen or to include with printed
scores.
Remixing
SONAR’s Groove clips allow you to import, create, export and edit loops, making it
possible to quickly change tempos and keys for an entire project. The Loop
Explorer view lets you preview loops in the project’s tempo and key before
dragging and dropping them onto a track.
Game Sound Development
There’s no better tool than SONAR for composing music for electronic games. Clip-
based sequencing lets you create and reuse musical themes freely, so you can
associate musical sections with game characters, locations, objects, and actions.
Your creations can be saved and replayed using the compact MIDI file format,
which adapts its sound automatically to the target hardware for the best possible
sound reproduction.
Sound Production and Engineering
If you want to produce music CDs or master tapes, SONAR has virtually
everything you need from recording to mixing and mastering. Multichannel
recording lets you capture studio or live performances track by track.
Reconfigurable buses provide full control over your mix. Real-time stereo effects
like chorus, flange, reverb, parametric EQ, and delay/echo can be applied as track
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